Jeff Smith CTO at DevRev

Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith, Office of CTO at DevRev, is a technology leader with 35 years of experience in enterprise IT, AI, cloud infrastructure, and digital transformation. He currently focuses on agentic AI and enterprise shared memory, and has spent his career helping organisations adopt emerging technologies and build high-performing teams.
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The model isn’t the variable. The foundation is.

As organisations focus on AI models and hallucinations, they often overlook the real issue: data foundations. This article explores why enterprise AI trust depends on traceable, verifiable data relationships rather than model selection alone.